Well since ive been ignoring thoughts it fought back again, it keeps filling my head with thoughts that i will kill my brother, also thoughts that came up was very wierd, when someone gives me a gift and i appriciate it ocd says that i didnt appriciated enough or i didnt felt anything and says that im a bad and heartless person ×D
I find it very difficult to see any logic or rationality in having sensorimotor/somatic/hyperawareness OCD to be honest. Some people think and say: well everyone breathes, blinks, swallows and all that stuff but that ofcourse doesn’t work long term and actually isn’t really a relief when you think about it. So I guess my OCD trick is trying to find any logic to this and being frustrated with the fact I can’t find any? Or something 🤷🏻♀️?
2:57 so true !! I used to listen to those life and loa coaches saying these kind of things and it really affected me badly, and when I told them about my OCD they had the audacity to say that I must stop my OCD thoughts or it’s going to become true by manifesting them 💀
Your videos saved me from a compulsion last night and backsliding. Today I was fine without doing the compulsion. Thanks for getting me through that. You're a lifesaver.
You don't know how bad it gets, I was tired, exhausted, and I felt paralysed, I snapped out, I felt nauseous, and I couldn't stop Doing compulsions, I am extremely tired, coudln't do my daily chores, couldn't type a lette
recently my undiagnosed ROCD was freaking out about this classmates i had because i was scared of my thoughts that said i was attracted to her. i definitely am not. now that i kind of got past that content, it now latched on to lack of excitement for my partner. ocd is crazy and it may have latched to the fact that i was seeing my partner for the first time after years of being together (we met online). i am anxious about meeting my partner but before the anxiety, i was SUPER excited.
Thank you for these videos. I come to these types of videos when i can't get my OCD to shutup. I let it get really bad and it will jump to different triggers as soon as i start to address it. And it will double up on triggers so I'll have like five different delusions going and i don't even know what to do. At that point I'll start panicking and it helps to have a sensible calming voice of reason. It's like an outside source that agrees with my brain. I know you say not to seek reassurance, but I don't think im doing it compulsively. And i am improving so i know im doing something right. 🥳 Thank you so much.
Thank you for sharing your experience and I'm glad to hear that these videos have been helpful for you in managing your OCD. It can be difficult to navigate the different triggers and thoughts that come with OCD.
@@ocdandanxiety thank you again! I have been steadily improving. I was slowly getting better before but things have gotten much better after i realized it was ocd
Nathan, you are an angel in this world, you got rid of my intrusive thoughts almost completely. I have a question is it normal, For example: If someone does a compulsion before bed that person needs to do it every night let's say it lasts 1 month then it goes away but I have to do a different compulsion before bed so it recycles over and over again. Something comes Something Something comes Something goes
Yup, that's totally normal. Compulsions come and go. Sometimes we don't even know sth is a compulsion and once we rezognise it and finally get rid of it, sth new pops up. Like he says, the best thing I think is not reacting because ocd wants you to react. It's a bully ;)
Thank you Nathan for your amazing videos! These videos helped me a lot to understand and learn how to deal with my OCD ☺ I've been struggling with real event + false memory OCD for many years, and I still have to deal with it, but thanks to your videos I can see that there is a solution. It feels so relieving to listen to your videos, it makes me feel that I'm not alone.
Thank you for the video. Very informative. Maybe the OCD brain (I have one of those) is just working super well trying to protect me furiously like a king will protect its kingdom.
OCD paralyzed me for doing what I’m suppose to do. It attacks everything. My knowledge, beliefs, desires and dreams. It’s so annoying, confusing, depressing and exhausting. OCD has done many things to my life that caused major distress. Whether if I’m doing something so someone wouldn’t die, or if something makes God angry, it’s so convincing and trying to make it real. I’ve cried many nights to sleep and anxiety shot through the roof. It also makes me insecure and makes me think whatever I know or believe is wrong. It’s so exhausting and distressing
My ocd gets worse when I try to defend myself as these intrusive thoughts and false memories go against my morals. But my mind will create false reasons why I might’ve done these things and it pictures me doing these things but I know I haven’t and it drives me crazy. I know life will get better but it’s a upwards struggle.
For now ocd tells me oh if you recover will you be happy without me ?but what if you really want me to be with you and you want these thoughts ? With urges to do something I'm just amazed by these scenarios
I have an ocd like i had extremists thought 9 years ago then i most be a criminal and that the stress maked my ocd an hallucinations which remind me every 5 second this
I use to have the thoughts of something wrong had happened but there isn't any evidence to prove that scary thought and I use to ask people for assurances and these thoughts are about my super loved ones... 😩😩
I'm sorry to hear that you've been struggling with scary thoughts. It's important to take care of yourself and consider seeking the help of a mental health professional to work through these feelings. Remember, you're not alone in this. 😄
I love what you do. I have learned so much from your videos but I do have one question. Why don't you have a detailed video on RESPONSE PREVENTION? I have seen countless videos on the Exposure part of ERP but no one really talks about response prevention. I know once we expose ourselves to anxiety, we're supposed to fight off the compulsion urges and rituals that normally follow after we are triggered. But no one has really gone in-depth on how we should respond to a triggered response. What are the correct steps? Do we tell ourselves, "don't think about it"? Do we try and just stop all thoughts? I am sure some of us are getting it wrong because when I first started, I was trying to stop the thought but I know there is a better way of handling it. Once you tell someone to try and resist urges and rituals, some of us will naturally try and stop the thoughts completely. What should we say to ourselves? Do we say anything at all? Do we block or do we sort of deal with compulsions? Help me understand
My ocd activated after i was prescribed adderall, hadnt gone away since and was on it from 2014-2021 . Had various ketamine infusions and it only temporarily solved some symptoms . Any thoughts ?
Hi Nathan. How do you deal with the fear of never recovering? Also if you lean into the thoughts... And say ok. Bring them on.. How many times do you need to do that? All day?
Hey nathan i have good and bad news i stopted obssesing but i suddendly have racing thoughts maybe when i obsses some time It gets even worse its probably of my anxeity what should i do?
Nate I don’t know if I have ocd or not or if I’m dead or alive please help I keep thinking thoughts such as I’m dead and this is all just memory please help
How does your OCD trick you? 🤕
Well since ive been ignoring thoughts it fought back again, it keeps filling my head with thoughts that i will kill my brother, also thoughts that came up was very wierd, when someone gives me a gift and i appriciate it ocd says that i didnt appriciated enough or i didnt felt anything and says that im a bad and heartless person ×D
And thank you so muchh!! You are a legit life saver
I find it very difficult to see any logic or rationality in having sensorimotor/somatic/hyperawareness OCD to be honest.
Some people think and say: well everyone breathes, blinks, swallows and all that stuff but that ofcourse doesn’t work long term and actually isn’t really a relief when you think about it.
So I guess my OCD trick is trying to find any logic to this and being frustrated with the fact I can’t find any?
Or something 🤷🏻♀️?
@@bornwithoutconsentobviously it must be very difficult to have sensorimotor ocd
@@immaisuradze it is
2:57 so true !! I used to listen to those life and loa coaches saying these kind of things and it really affected me badly, and when I told them about my OCD they had the audacity to say that I must stop my OCD thoughts or it’s going to become true by manifesting them 💀
I find myself, self sabotaging a lot of relationships I’ve had
I'm sorry to hear that. Anxiety is the pits! I hope you can find some relief my friend!
Your videos saved me from a compulsion last night and backsliding. Today I was fine without doing the compulsion. Thanks for getting me through that. You're a lifesaver.
You don't know how bad it gets, I was tired, exhausted, and I felt paralysed, I snapped out, I felt nauseous, and I couldn't stop Doing compulsions, I am extremely tired, coudln't do my daily chores, couldn't type a lette
recently my undiagnosed ROCD was freaking out about this classmates i had because i was scared of my thoughts that said i was attracted to her. i definitely am not. now that i kind of got past that content, it now latched on to lack of excitement for my partner. ocd is crazy and it may have latched to the fact that i was seeing my partner for the first time after years of being together (we met online). i am anxious about meeting my partner but before the anxiety, i was SUPER excited.
Thank you for these videos. I come to these types of videos when i can't get my OCD to shutup. I let it get really bad and it will jump to different triggers as soon as i start to address it. And it will double up on triggers so I'll have like five different delusions going and i don't even know what to do. At that point I'll start panicking and it helps to have a sensible calming voice of reason. It's like an outside source that agrees with my brain. I know you say not to seek reassurance, but I don't think im doing it compulsively. And i am improving so i know im doing something right. 🥳 Thank you so much.
Thank you for sharing your experience and I'm glad to hear that these videos have been helpful for you in managing your OCD. It can be difficult to navigate the different triggers and thoughts that come with OCD.
@@ocdandanxiety thank you again! I have been steadily improving. I was slowly getting better before but things have gotten much better after i realized it was ocd
It's ok,i have the same symptoms
Nathan, you are an angel in this world, you got rid of my intrusive thoughts almost completely. I have a question is it normal, For example: If someone does a compulsion before bed that person needs to do it every night let's say it lasts 1 month then it goes away but I have to do a different compulsion before bed so it recycles over and over again. Something comes Something Something comes Something goes
Yup, that's totally normal. Compulsions come and go. Sometimes we don't even know sth is a compulsion and once we rezognise it and finally get rid of it, sth new pops up. Like he says, the best thing I think is not reacting because ocd wants you to react. It's a bully ;)
@@ArturSzczurwell said my friend
Fr.
Nathan youre a hero to this community!
Thank you Nathan for your amazing videos! These videos helped me a lot to understand and learn how to deal with my OCD ☺
I've been struggling with real event + false memory OCD for many years, and I still have to deal with it, but thanks to your videos I can see that there is a solution. It feels so relieving to listen to your videos, it makes me feel that I'm not alone.
Thank you for the video. Very informative. Maybe the OCD brain (I have one of those) is just working super well trying to protect me furiously like a king will protect its kingdom.
love your idea.
Thank you for this video, this is very helpful and reading the comments as well, knowing that you are not alone in this situation.
OCD paralyzed me for doing what I’m suppose to do. It attacks everything. My knowledge, beliefs, desires and dreams. It’s so annoying, confusing, depressing and exhausting. OCD has done many things to my life that caused major distress. Whether if I’m doing something so someone wouldn’t die, or if something makes God angry, it’s so convincing and trying to make it real. I’ve cried many nights to sleep and anxiety shot through the roof. It also makes me insecure and makes me think whatever I know or believe is wrong. It’s so exhausting and distressing
My ocd gets worse when I try to defend myself as these intrusive thoughts and false memories go against my morals. But my mind will create false reasons why I might’ve done these things and it pictures me doing these things but I know I haven’t and it drives me crazy. I know life will get better but it’s a upwards struggle.
For now ocd tells me oh if you recover will you be happy without me ?but what if you really want me to be with you and you want these thoughts ?
With urges to do something
I'm just amazed by these scenarios
You must be doing something right then :) It sounds as its getting desperate.
You can't have certainty over an abstract thought/feeling/idea
God bless this man
As always, thank you so much for every video you make 😭🙏🏽
I have an ocd like i had extremists thought 9 years ago then i most be a criminal and that the stress maked my ocd an hallucinations which remind me every 5 second this
Thanks for saving my brain Nathan
I use to have the thoughts of something wrong had happened but there isn't any evidence to prove that scary thought and I use to ask people for assurances and these thoughts are about my super loved ones... 😩😩
I'm sorry to hear that you've been struggling with scary thoughts. It's important to take care of yourself and consider seeking the help of a mental health professional to work through these feelings. Remember, you're not alone in this. 😄
@@ocdandanxiety thanks Nathan ❤️
@@SajidAli-td3dx have you overcomed it ?
Thank you ❤ your video is saving me. ❤
Thank you Nathan!😊
tysmm u r the best im gonna meet u in person some day that's in my bucket list lysm
Thank you Nathan! This is helpful. Your videos have helped so much
Thanks so much for your support Jane! I'm glad to hear that you're doing well.
I feel like this every day 🧍🏽 with everything
Oh no. I'm so sorry that you're feeling this way. I hope you can find some calmness soon.
I’m also a construction worker I do lots of heavy work
You're not alone..
Tha l you so much for all you've done Nathan!
I love what you do. I have learned so much from your videos but I do have one question.
Why don't you have a detailed video on RESPONSE PREVENTION? I have seen countless videos on the Exposure part of ERP but no one really talks about response prevention.
I know once we expose ourselves to anxiety, we're supposed to fight off the compulsion urges and rituals that normally follow after we are triggered.
But no one has really gone in-depth on how we should respond to a triggered response. What are the correct steps?
Do we tell ourselves, "don't think about it"? Do we try and just stop all thoughts? I am sure some of us are getting it wrong because when I first started, I was trying to stop the thought but I know there is a better way of handling it.
Once you tell someone to try and resist urges and rituals, some of us will naturally try and stop the thoughts completely.
What should we say to ourselves? Do we say anything at all? Do we block or do we sort of deal with compulsions? Help me understand
This a real story I heard on Tedtalk nate .
My ocd activated after i was prescribed adderall, hadnt gone away since and was on it from 2014-2021 . Had various ketamine infusions and it only temporarily solved some symptoms .
Any thoughts ?
I know this is just thoughts this not make even sense but I can't control and feel every time anxiety
Sane case here and my thoughts are that embarrassing that I can't even talk to a therapist about it 😟
Hi Nathan. How do you deal with the fear of never recovering? Also if you lean into the thoughts... And say ok. Bring them on.. How many times do you need to do that? All day?
Why i doubt many things illogically sometimes? When it is totally illogical
Hey nathan i have good and bad news i stopted obssesing but i suddendly have racing thoughts maybe when i obsses some time It gets even worse its probably of my anxeity what should i do?
I need help, there is so much going on in my brain, I am unable to explain it to my parents and friends, I am feeling like a monster.
U can share the problem
Hello lifesaver!
MY LIFE IN A VIDEO :D
OCD is like a helicopter parent during the satanic panic
Nate I don’t know if I have ocd or not or if I’m dead or alive please help I keep thinking thoughts such as I’m dead and this is all just memory please help
Ohhhh, that's a cool one.
How How How do we not respond to it ?
Ehi ta gal a meaning that's the point 😩
The brain is neuroplastic.
Totally! We can teach and create new pathways.
Do you have any videos about blinking ocd? There's nothing about it on youtube.
Anything sensorimotor OCD is blinking OCD - Here's my most recent video on it. th-cam.com/video/khAvnENmHXg/w-d-xo.html
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